amy goodman: in defense of pete seeger. will kaufman: yeah. amy goodman: before huac, the house un-american activities committee. what did woody guthrie himself feel were his most important achievements? will kaufman: he would say, as he did say, just telling the stories of people who he encountered and putting their stories to music. he often said, "yeah, i haven't written an original word in my life. everything i write down is something i heard from you out there, and i'm just telling you something you already know." so he would say that he wasused music as a means of telling stories that otherwise would not get told, from people who would not be heard otherwise. and as far as he was concerned, that was his life's mission. amy goodman: will kaufman, author of woody guthrie, american radical. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we continue our woody guthrie special, we turn to the british rocker and activist, billy bragg. in 1998 and 2000, bragg participated in two well-known albums paying t